Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.— Martin Luther King, Jr.Tonight is the second night of our Solstice prayer-spell. Tonight, preferably around sunset, take a moment to create sacred space and a peaceful spirit for yourself and your family. When you are ready, light the first candle that you lit last weekContinue reading
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Inversnaid— Gerard Manley HopkinsThis darksome burn, horseback brown,His rollrock highroad roaring down,In coop and in comb the fleece of his foamFlutes and low to the lake falls home. A windpuff-bonnet of fawn-frothTurns and twindles over the brothOf a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning,It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning. Degged with dew, dappled with dew,Are theContinue reading
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There isn’t enough darkness in all the worldto snuff out the light of one little candle. — Siddhartha Gautama BuddhaIn case you’ve been traveling or overlooked it, this Sunday will be the second night of our Solstice Sun Wheel ritual. Even if you missed last Sunday’s first part, it is perfectly fine to start itContinue reading
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Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. and a powerful New Moon in Sagittarius. As Caitlin Matthews points out in her beautiful The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year,Continue reading
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. — Brooks AtkinsonTomorrow is the New Moon, occurring just before noon, Eastern Standard Time. The lunation period that surrounds Samhain can be thought of as the Samhain season, during whichContinue reading
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